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Interning at Save the Elephants- Kathleen Hopkins

Hey guys. I’m so sorry that it’s the end of the month and my time here at STE, and I’m just now writing an intern blog. This month has sped by, and I can’t believe that I’m about to head home in just 4 days.Since this was my first time in...

STE Research Camp Flooding – Two months on

We are pleased to report that much progress has been made in rebuilding and reequipping our research centre in Samburu, following its destruction by the surging flood waters of the Ewaso River on March 4th, 2010. We owe our progress to the...

Thank you! Emergency flood relief fundraising target achieved

We extend our sincere thanks to everyone who contributed so generously to the rebuilding of our research facility, destroyed by flooding on March 4th, 2010. Due to the tremendous and overwhelming support of our friends and donors especially in the...

Back in the city after two months of bushwork – Last Blog

It is finally over now, after two months of working, living and laughing in the bush we have arrived back in Nairobi at the STE Head-office. We can’t help but feeling that we have left a place which we were fortunate enough to call our home, with...

Only one more week left!

After finishing our transect we are now fully occupied by our focal study on the diet of elephants. This means following around a family each morning and each afternoon for about three hours and recording what they are eating. This way we are really...

A finished transect, roaring Lions and the good life

Good news everybody, a week ago we have finished the first part of our research! The transect along the river has been completed, in total we made 19 plots of 4 x 4 meter along the Ewaso Ng’iro river and found a total of 115 different species of...

Field update by Edwin & Jos

It has been a while since the last blog, but that is just because we have been very busy around here! We have now made the first part of our transect along the riverside to investigate the effect of the recent flooding on the vegetation here in the...

Excellent performances by our students

We are very happy to report that all our students who sat last year's Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination (KCSE) performed very, very well! Benjamin Loloju our A student had this to say:“I am happy to have scored an A in my KCSE...

Progress at STE camp after the flood

We have been here for about two weeks now and it seems to become second nature to us, last week we went a day out to Isiolo with some of the guys from Save the Elephants to have a good day off. It was a nice trip and we had roasted goat and some...